Beja: Municipal Company for Water and Sanitation closes accounts 2017 red.
The Municipal Company for Water and Sanitation (EMAS) Beja yesterday closed the accounts of 2017 with the approval of the Annual Report of the previous year with the worst result of the decade.
With the four favorable votes of the elected PS and two abstentions of elected CDU, missed Councilman Victor Picado, EMAS accounts, They were approved yesterday at the Executive meeting of the Municipality of Beja.
In a document sent to the media, a company, through the Executive Director, Rui Marreiros, proviso that “unfortunately they were now confirmed the fears that worried the new administration as soon as it took office in November, when little longer could be done to contain the damage caused by the management of the last four years. The Company recorded the worst economic result, at least, last two 11 year old, with a net result of negative exercise”, held.
Rui Marreiros stresses that “although it is not easy to recover from one day to the other of an imbalance that was created over four years, this should not bring additional concerns for employees, customers and partners, given that recovery trend is already underway and this administration will do everything so that the real value of the company is not affected. It may not be in a year, this first year, but we will surely recover because together we water our priority, with our employees who are our strength, to continue to be a reference in the municipal public service”, justified.
The Executive Director, expressed in numbers Chamber Executive of concern, arguing that “in fact it is necessary to go back to 2006, to find a worse outcome, a situation that added to the debt to banks and contractors about 2.5 million which was required to settle the last months of the year, makes this situation even more complex from a structural point of view that found in 2009, at which point the company also suffered from severe financial imbalances”, finished.
In Camera meeting of course, Rui Marreiros, revealed that in 2017, EMAS registered around 20.000 contracts, a volume of water supplied 2 million cubic meters and total billing 6 million. In the explanations of the figures indicated that “investments in contracts and interest of the loans limit the company's investment capacity”, adding that is being negotiated a debt settlement agreement to Public Alentejo Waters, in which 31 December 2017, exceeded 2 million”, finishing off there “a worrying imbalance and required careful attention of the decisions to be taken”, concluded.
On behalf of the CDU, Councilman and former president of the Chamber of Beja, John Rocha said he was presented “a misleading explanation and is to excuse the former management (speaking of 4 Jorge Pulido Valente years of) where the current Executive Director, it was manager”, arguing that “the Alentejo Public Water has to make payments for the use of space and property (the water)”, justifying that “the privatization of water in low is a process that the PS is not strange because it was initiated by the then Prime Minister, José Sócrates”, concluded.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
